# verbing properties again

Kipp the Kidd (mcmudge@mailbox.syr.edu)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:17:02 PDT

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    At 06:55 AM 7/26/96 PDT, Adams, Charles wrote:
    >I'll never support this ill-founded idea of invisibly "verbing" property
    >access. When I say foo.bar, I want to see the property "bar" on object
    >"foo", and not what someone decides I *should* be seeing instead.  Are we
    >going to have to design a builtin to mean "I really want the property, no I
    >really mean it, no, I don't want to go through channels, just connect me to
    >the property."

    I think this is greedy thinking.  If MOO is ever going to be flexible enough
    to handle more complicated tasks, we need to add some flexibility to theese
    not-so-flexible properties.

    I don't think anyone would modify the output of a property unless it did
    something useful.  So, if you want to be the only one doing useful things,
    lock yourself in a room with a new MOO.  (Verbing properties might be useful
    even to yourself tho...)

    I can only imagine how boring descriptions would be if they never changed,
    or reflected on the current state of an object.  I use the verbing
    properties method at Paradigm, and it's the best thing since queued tasks.

    - Kipp
    http://radioactivo.com.mx/~paradigm